Chalk Ocania (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Black College Sport (ISBN: 039607023X / 0-396-07023-X) Chalk, Ocania, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1976, 376p, hc w/ dj, dj bumped/scuffed/small tears, boards clean/square, CLEAN text, solid binding, NOT xlib---4.00.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. red fabric cover boards with no DJ, 4 tape remnant marks on cover board and end paper edges, 305 pages, no handwriting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good with a Chip.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. One of the first books to truly examine this subject and one of the most difficult to find. Chapters include Black Professional Players of the Past; A Brief History of Professional Basketball; From the Beginnings to Jack Johnson and Other Black Boxing Champions; The Emerging Black Stars of Football and Professional Football's Caste System. First Edition, ex-library copy. The text is in very good condition, the non price clipped Dust jacket is in fair condition. I have more than 235 publications on the Negro Leagues and Black Sports in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.…

Good plus or better, light general wear, corners lightly bumped. hardbound Lightly edgeworn, lightly rubbed jacket. Illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition glossy photographic softcover wraps. Includes List of Other Titles in A Hard Road to Glory series; Author Dedication; Publisher's Statement dated March 1993; Views of Sport: Taking the Hard Road with Black Athletes by Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.; Foreword by Ralph Wiley, October 1993; Foreword to A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, Volumes 1 - 3; Acknowledgments; Reference Section and Index. "A Hard Road to Glory was an emotional experience for me because it dealt so intimately, at almost every stage, with both the triumph and tragedy, the elation and suffering, of blacks as they met not only the physical challenges of their sports but also the gratuitous challenges of racism. No sport was exempt from this painful double history." - Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. "The most comprehensive reference source on African-American athletes yet compiled." - San Francisco Chronilce. "No library should be without A Hard Road to Glory." - Stan Isaacs, New York Newsday. "The definitive documentation of African-American sporting history." - Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated. "A Hard Road to Glory . is a compendium of the African-American athlete in boxing. Boxing has given the African-American athlete an oppotrunity to catch the national imagination through physical prowess. The earlier boxers, such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, stood as symbols of black equality if not superiority. Even before Johnson there were super black boxers. This book tells their stories and looks at their records. The text and reference materials for this book were taken from the three-volume set, A Hard Road to Glory, and combined into this single volume." - from the rear outer cover. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Frayed & Chipped. First Edition. 376pp Illus One corner bumped. Some foxing on endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, review copy with slip. Octavo, 305pp, photographic illustrations, publisher's red cloth lettered in white at spine (minor rubbing to corners, else very good or better). Pictorial dust jacket (general rubbing, heavier to extremities, a couple tiny tears and creases to edges, else very good).…

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Fading to the spine.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Some chips to spine.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Photos, 9.25 x 6.25, red cloth, 305 pp, covers worn at extremities, hinges a bit loose, old ink price inside book else a nice, fresh copy in worn, soiled, toned dust jacket.

Hardcover. First edition. First printing, near fine cloth hardcover shows just a touch of shelf wear, in a near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows some light rubbing. 305 pages nicely illustrated in black & white. Still a good looking copy of this work that looks at the ".pioneers who first played on the all-black teams, in the all-black championships, or the occasional exhibition games against white adversaries, that did not count." Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket.…

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1976). 376 pages. First edition. Illustrated. Near Fine in publisher's cloth in a very good dust jacket. Written by a Black American, an extensive treatment of the history of male African Americans playing baseball, football, running and so forth, whether in All-Black leagues or on racially-integrated teams, etc. Interestingly, the author exclusively dedicates his short 1-page Foreword to explaining why Black female athletes are not discussed within. He concludes that a book devoted to these women remains to be written.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. New Condition, minimal wear from storage, may have bookstore sticker or name inside front cover otherwise, As New, looks great. 135 pages. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 6. ISBN: 1567430392. ISBN/EAN: 9781567430394. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1560729005.…

Hardcover with Dustcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good condition.